Yesterday I came across a weblog entry by a Holocaust fanatic who declared that there was no disputing the 'historical facts.' The problem is, as this person apparently doesn't realise, is that it is precisely the 'historical facts' which are in dispute. (What the hell does he think people are arguing about, if it's not the facts?) Anyone who attempts to study the Holocaust seriously will soon discover that there are no 'facts,' for Holocaust 'facts' are manufactured at will, when and as the occasion demands.
Every single aspect of the so-called Holocaust turns out, upon close examination, to dissolve into empty allegations. For example, the Germans took over the town of Czestochowa in Poland on the evening of September 3-4, 1939. Many sources claim that a massacre of Jews followed the next day. OK, let's get down to specifics. How many Jews did the Germans kill?
This website, which cites as its source The Encyclopedia of the Holocaust, Israel Gutman, Editor in Chief, Macmillan Publishing Company: New York, 1990, mentions no massacre at all:
http://www.humboldt.edu/~rescuers/book/damski/dlinks/czest.html
Let's work our way up from zero. The lowest figure I've seen is 60. Please bear in mind that this is the total number of civilians killed, only a part of which would have consisted of Jews:
'On September 4 ... people were hunted down in the town, on the pretext that an attempt had been made to fire at German soldiers from one of the houses. ... About 60 people were seized and shot.'
http://felsztyn.tripod.com/germaninvasion/id4.html
The numbers keep rising from there, although they are usually for both Jews and Poles, not Jews alone:
According to a professional Holocaust scholar who emailed me today, German sources report 96 men and three women killed, thus a total of 99. (This would be both Jews and Poles.) I was told that the source for the information was Commander I/IR42, report "Bericht ueber Tschenstochau", Bundesarchiv-Militaerarchiv RH37/904, p. 35. Whether this report is authentic or not, I have no idea, but if it is authentic, it shows you that many people are deliberately inflating the numbers.
Now we break the 100 barrier:
The Nazis entered ‘Czestochowa on Sep. 3, 1939, and the following day they killed over a hundred Jews’:
http://www.ess.uwe.ac.uk/genocide/gcpol5.htm
‘The Nazis marched into Czestochowa on Sunday, September 3, 1939 ... The next day, which became known as Bloody Monday, approximately 150 people were shot dead in the streets.’ - Wikipedia.
The figure of 150 is also cited here:
http://www.benkazez.com/dan/crarg/town-histories.php
Lord Russell wrote in his book Scourge of the Swastika (1954) that this day ‘180 Jews were shot in the city of Czestochowa for refusing to burn the Torah.’
Die Zeit claims 'over 200' Jewish and Polish men, women and children:
http://www.stsg.de/main/dresden/archiv/presse/bilder/_.pdf
This webpage says exactly 227, although once again this is a figure for BOTH Jews and Poles: 'Soldaten des Infanterieregiments 42 treiben in der Strazacka-Straße und auf dem Marktplatz jüdische und polnische Einwohner zusammen. Bei Exekutionen kommen 227 Männer, Frauen und Kinder ums Leben.'
http://www.ghwk.de/2006-neu/raum5.htm
The basis for the 227 figure, I have been informed, was 'an exhumation that had been initiated by the German authorities on the city area' in 1940. Why the Germans would bother conducting an exhumation to determine how many people they had killed when they already had a report giving the precise figure of 99 is beyond me. It's more likely they were exhuming a mass grave to determine how many of their own people (whether soldiers or ethnic Germans) had been killed by someone else.
Anyway, let's keep moving upwards:
This page says several hundred: 'Einige hundert wurden als Vergeltung für eine ungeklärte Schießerei ermordet.'
http://www.berlinonline.de/berliner-zeitung/spezial/kritiken/buecher/44607/index.php
Another website says that ‘the Nazis killed 300 Jews, in an action known as "Bloody Monday"’:
http://www.deathcamps.org/occupation/czestochowa%20ghetto.html
‘More than 300 Jews were killed':
http://yad-vashem.org.il/about_holocaust/month_in_holocaust/june/june_lexicon/czestochowa.html
The figure of 'more than 300' is also cited here:
http://www.holocaust-chronologie.de/chronologie/1939/september/01-07.html
Now, just for fun, let's multiply the highest figure so far by twenty times (who's gonna stop us?):
Leo Scher says that when the Germans arrived in Czestochowa they ‘gather[ed] us together, and they told us to lay down on the ground face down. All the men, Jewish and Poles. … Then they killed, in the city of Czestochowa, they killed about six thousand men just for not obeying the order’:
http://www.southerninstitute.info/holocaust_education/leo_scher.html
So how many Jews did the Germans kill in the alleged massacre of September 4, 1939?
